The following lists events that happened during 2000 in China.
Incumbents
Governors
Events
January
- January 14 â 2000 Yunnan earthquake: An earthquake measuring 5.9 in magnitude occurred in the Yunnan province in southwest China, killing 7 people and injuring at least 2,528 more. Almost 41,000 homes were levelled by the earthquake.
- January â Baidu, an internet search engine, was founded.
October
- October 28 â Jiang Zemin berated Hong Kong journalist Sharon Cheung.
December
Births
- March 12 â Sabrina Man, Chinese-Filipina-Canadian actress, television host and commercial model.
- June 16 â Yifei Ye, racing driver
- July 25 â Zhang Hao, singer.
- November 4 - Sun Yingsha, table tennis player.
Deaths
- January 5 â Xie Bingying, soldier and writer (b. 1906)
- January 8 â Ray Huang, historian and philosopher (b. 1918)
- January 21 â Ho Ying-chie, Hong Kong businessman and philanthropist (b. 1911)
- January 22 â Dai Suli, politician (b. 1919)
- February 2 â Li Zhun, novelist (b. 1928)
- February 10 â Ji Pengfei, 3rd Minister of Foreign Affairs of China (b. 1910)
- February 16
- Wang Zigan, Shanghai-style paper-cutter (b. 1920)
- Fung Fung, Hong Kong actor (b. 1916)
- March 4
- Wu Ta-You, physicist (b. 1907)
- Xie Xide, physicist (b. 1921)
- March 18 â Pei Lisheng, 2nd and 4th Governor of Shanxi (b. 1906)
- March 19 â Li Huanzhi, classical composer (b. 1919)
- March 21 â Bai Shouyi, ethnologist, historian, social activist and writer (b. 1909)
- April 10 â Angela Yu Chien, Hong Kong actress (b. 1942)
- April 16 â Ann Mui, Hong Kong singer and actress (b. 1959)
- April 29 â Chen Fangyun, electrical engineer (b. 1916)
- May 9 â Zheng Weishan, lieutenant general and politician (b. 1915)
- May 21 â Zhao Puchu, religious and public leader (b. 1907)
- June 3 â Ann Tse-kai, Hong Kong industrialist, legislator and sinologist (b. 1912)
- June 12 â Yun Bulong, 7th Chairman of the Government of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (b. 1937)
- June 16 â Jiang Weiqing, 4th Secretary of the Jiangxi Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (b. 1910)
- June 23 â Geng Biao, 5th Minister of National Defense of China (b. 1909)
- July 17 â Zhao Lirong, singer and film actress (b. 1928)
- July 23 â Kao Pao-shu, actress, producer, writer and film director (b. 1932)
- August 28 â Liao Zhigao, politician (b. 1913)
- September 14 â Cheng Kejie, 8th Chairman of the Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (b. 1933)
- September 18 â Chen Yuefang, basketball player (b. 1963)
- October 16 â Lu Xiaopeng, aircraft designer (b. 1920)
- November 4 â Pok Shau-fu, journalist and politician (b. 1909)
- November 5 â Hu Sheng, Marxist theorist and historian (b. 1918)
- November 11 â , actor (b. 1926)
- November 27 â Lin Yaohua, sociologist and anthropologist (b. 1910)
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